Article September 18, 1948 Issue

THE SAVIOUR INDISPENSABLE

LENA M. HALL

Those who served in the last World War soon learned that no human quality which they possessed, however desirable, no human training which they had received, however thorough, was adequate to save them from the dangers and disasters continually threatening those in combat. No, human safeguards were not enough; and many young men and women who had always relied upon their own efficiency now cried out for a savior.

It is not only in times of emergency that there is need of a savior. Scarcely a day passes that does not bring problems too intricate for human wisdom to solve, questions too difficult for human philosophy to answer. Sometimes the problems seem trivial compared to the emergencies of human existence, yet these daily pinpricks would take the joy out of many days and nights, unless handled by spiritual methods, as a student of Christian Science discovered.

For some time this student had been wrestling with a minor problem, letting it rob her of the serenity which was her birthright. Many human methods of correcting the situation had been tried in vain. Finally one day Truth spoke to her after this fashion: "You are trying to save yourself. Have you forgotten that you have a Saviour?" Then the poem by our Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, which begins (Poems, p. 75), "Saw ye my Saviour?" flooded her thought with new meaning, and, ceasing to employ useless human methods and relying wholeheartedly on the power of Truth, she soon rejoiced in entire freedom.

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